RIO DE JANEIRO – There was nothing indecisive about the second meeting of Phil Davis and Wagner Prado.

Davis dominated his excitable opponent on the mat before securing a submission in the second round.

The light heavyweight bout was part of the main card of Saturday’s UFC 153 event at HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro. It aired on pay-per-view following prelims on FX and Facebook.

After some feints, Prado let a high kick go to break the silence in the first. Davis immediately tried to tie up and take the fight down, but Prado pushed him away.

When another head kick slammed into his arm, Davis elected to shoot again and timed his attempt better, ducking under Prado’s punch. Prado worked to regain his feet and blatantly grabbed the fence as he fought to keep Davis from his back. After being warned by referee Marc Goddard, he regained his feet, but Davis quickly dumped him back to the mat, where he landed big punches against the cage. Prado fought his way up again, only to get deposited again to the mat.

Prado was noticeably tentative in the second as Davis threw high kicks and a flying knee to set up the clinch. It didn’t take long before the Brazilian was on his butt. When he regained his feet, Davis tenderized his legs with knees before disengaging.

With space to work, Prado looked for openings to strike. But even a highly telegraphed shot couldn’t hinder Davis from putting the fight on the mat. There, he went to work with elbows and punches as Prado floundered. Locking up an arm triangle, Davis appeared to have the fight won. Prado bucked and escaped, but pitching forward, he exposed his neck. Davis secured another arm triangle and did a gator roll to execute a textbook anaconda choke. The official time of the tapout was 4:29 of the second round.

After an accidental eyepoke ended their first meeting at UFC on FOX 4, Davis expressed gratitude at a solid win.

“Honestly, I so want to come back to fight here against an American or some other neutral country, because I want to be able to feel this excitement,” Davis said. “Even though it wasn’t for me, it’s still amazing. I’m just glad I didn’t poke him in the eye. I felt like such a knucklehead after the first fight. I got to spend a little more time in the gym and prepare this time, but every time I get to spend in the gym is good.”

“I think that Phil wasn’t prepared for me for the first fight, but he came prepared for this one,” Prado said. “I’m sure he did all his camp focusing on me. In any way, it is so good to be able to fight in front of this crowd. Remember when I said, in my first fight, that that was the happiest day of my life? Well, this was, even though it ended like it did. I’m just upset I wasn’t able to give the crowd what they wanted, but I hope to do better next time.”

Following a decision loss to Rashad Evans that was the first of his pro career, Davis (10-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC) solidly returns to the win column, while Prado (7-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) suffers the first loss of his career.

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